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This week the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has begun a new observing run with upgraded instruments, new and even more accurate signal models, and more advanced data analysis methods….

Science foundation NWO is awarding a research grant to Nikhef physicist Keri Vos, affiliated with Maastricht University. This was announced in The Hague. Vos is affiliated with the…

Former Nikhef PhD student Lodewijk Nauta wins the Jan Kluyver Prize 2023 or the best English-language abstract in his dissertation on the first measurements with the KM3NeT neutrino…

The Virgo detector for gravitational waves in Italy will not yet participate in the fourth round of observations by the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra consortium starting end of May. The sensitivity…

The KM3NeT neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea was expanded by three new lines in a record 24 hours last week. It also features a section making other…

The Netherlands is contributing 2.7 million euros to further improvements to the Advanced Virgo detector for gravitational waves in Pisa. Science financier NWO is making funds available for…

The cover of DIMENSIES provides insight into one of the themes of the 9th edition of Nikhef magazine, namely the Nikhef group in Nijmegen. The Nijmegen high-energy physicists…

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the world’s largest particle accelerator, is again running at full power after an extended winter shutdown. Experiments at the LHC have shared…

High-energy physicist Marcel Merk of Nikhef has been appointed a member of the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen. Merk was recently installed, the KHMW announced. Merk is professor…

Neutrino physicist Dorothea Samtleben is the new program leader of Nikhef’s Neutrino Physics group as of April 1. She is the institute’s first female program leader. Samtleben (Hamburg,…

The National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef will build a unique vertical particle accelerator in the neighboring Amsterdam Data Tower at the science park. Researchers want to use…

The ATLAS experiment at CERN has presented a better estimate of the mass of one of the cornerstones of the Standard Model. The W boson turns out to…

The expansion of the XENON experiment at Gran Sasso in Italy is bearing fruit. The larger detector works better than its predecessors. So reports the XENON collaboration today…

For the first time, physicists have been able to directly observe neutrinos produced in proton collisions at the LHC accelerator at CERN. This was announced by the FASER…

GRAPPA researchers Gianfranco Bertone and Samaya Nissanke, also affiliated with Nikhef, will receive an NWO M grant for a new quest for dark matter with the help of…

Limburg and the Euregion have gold in their hands with the Einstein Telescope. This was said by EU Commissioner Frans Timmermans on Friday during a working visit to…

The KM3NeT collaboration that is building a neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea has awarded Nikhef’s Edward Berbee the Giorgos Androulakis award for engineers in the project. That…

Former PhD student Tino Nyawelo at Nikhef will receive the prestigious Spirit of Salam Prize 2023 for his work to involve refugees in science. Nyawelo himself fled Sudan,…

A Dutch consortium led by SRON has received a twelve million Euro NWO grant that will enable it to become a key partner within ESA/NASA’s LISA mission, the…

Former Nikhef PhD student Brian Moser of Nikhef received an award from the ATLAS Experiment at CERN for his 2022 dissertation The Beauty and the Boost. The prize…